Filtering at Ada Community Library, Boise Idaho

[Chuck Bearden]

> Date:          Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:03:06 -0700
> From:          Ronnie Morgan <rmorgan at Harding.edu>

> At 05:51 AM 9/2/97 -0700, Diane Lewis wrote:
> >Thanks to Dan Lester for forwarding that chilling story to this list. 
> >I was particularly struck by the attitude of that parent who 
> >insisted that the Library not allow his son access to the Net without 
> >his parents' presence.  One would think a simple instruction to the 
> >son would have been sufficient.   
> 
> If most of you advocate "parents choice", why is this so "chilling"?  Was
> the father not making the choice in this case? 
> 
> One would think a simple instruction to the LIBRARY would have been
> sufficient.  

I would agree wholeheartedly that parents should choose how their
children make use of the library.  However, I don't think it should
be up to the library to enforce that choice. That, in my view, is
just one more case of the state acting in loco parentis.  

Chuck
cbearden at hpl.lib.tx.us
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